Like, for instance, how the Free Market has done such a stellar job at providing critical life-saving drugs at a reasonable price, as has been plastered all over the news in recent weeks?
This thread is just a butthurt Democrat crying to his mommy.
Your side does it too, slugger. Now drink your milk.
Butthurt? That is very descriptive. Where did you learn such a word? From fist hand personal experience, I presume?
Well there’s highways and clean water. But except highways and clean water, what has the government ever done for us?
Are you old enough that you have a smallpox vaccination scar on your arm? Old enough to remember the panic, the ongoing and brutal fear of polio? Did you stand in line in first grade to get the polio vaccine? There are things that need doing that benefit us all. How many more kids would have spent their lifetimes in iron lungs waiting for some way for the desirable level of profit to be available? (If you are Doper puppy, and have to look up these things, do it.)
The Free Market does not exist, it never has. As soon as there was money, as soon as there was a market, the guys with the swords took their cut. The only real question is whether that money goes to buying more armor for the local warlord or schools and roads. The local warlord always had his preferences, and the means to enforce them.
The Free Market and its magic is fairy dust harvested from unicorns.
From the Oxford Dictionary.
You can go back to building castles in the sandbox now.
That every time they buckle down and try to create Utopia in someone’s green and peaceful land, they end up with the Satanic mills and gulags and Great Leaps Forwards and Killing Fields and so on.
Democratic Socialism, aka Bourgeois Liberal Democracy with some welfare thrown in, isn’t what I’m talking about. Everyone agrees that’s been tried.
Which one of the shutdowns affected Social Security, food stamps, or Medicare?
What if you need to get a passport?
What if you have ongoing correspondence with the IRS that has to be cleared up by a certain date?
What if you have an account payable from a federal department that you’re counting on to get paid in order to meet your own company’s expenses?
They may not apply to you personally but they, and things like that, apply to a lot of people.
But…but…it’ll work this time!!!
We need to take away all the guns from legal owners, open the borders up, tax the shit out of anyone who works for a living and increase handouts for the lazy fucks who don’t wanna work.
That privileged neural surgeon should make the same as the guy who sits on his ass all day preaching about equality on the internets.
The perfect communism utopia is just right around the corner!!!
It’ll work this time, I swear!!!
Yeah,
Good luck with dumping your water utility company and choosing a different supplier.
Also good luck with choosing between two providers for city streets.
Good luck with that argument.
According to dogma, there is no such thing as a natural monopoly: The government has touched everything, so every bad market outcome is regulatory capture. Actually understanding what “regulatory capture” means is actively detrimental to understanding this doctrine.
Therefore, the fact it’s cheaper for an existing water company which has already laid pipes to add one more customer than it is for me to create my own water company and lay pipes out to everyone and every business isn’t real, doesn’t exist, and is due to government interference in any event, so it doesn’t matter and won’t happen in the True Libertarian Utopia.
Huh?
Under Reagan, the government was shut down on eight different occasions.
What are you talking about?
And of course the Republicans will be blamed for it.
This time, it really is their fault; they’re trying to defund Planned Parenthood over a bunch of deceptively edited videos. That is not to say they should all be fired.
Yeah, we can certainly trust car companies to honestly report on the emissions created by their vehicles.
Indeed. And the government should stay out of creating profit-busting regulations that hurt business.
After all, there is no way a company would actually cut corners andkill their customers. So there is nothing to worry about.
If ExxonMobil runs a turnpike, you will not find it so easy to avoid it and use the Shell turnpike instead.
No, but if you say they should all be shot the FBI and other such intrusive types start reading your posting history much more carefully! 